Holding my 14th birthday present at the Hill’s house in Botley, Oxford. That’s my brother Rob, who had come to visit. I wore a tooth brace but still managed a smile.
Billy Fury, complete with ‘bird poo hat’ and me age 16, outside the stage door of the New Theatre, Oxford, 1965.
Radio Luxembourg’s Doug Perry was my first (disastrous) date in London – here’s his page in Fab at the time.
Me doing my first modelling session for Fabulous, complete with Biba feather boa, summer 1967.
Billy Fury’s brother, Jason Eddie (Albert Wycherley) makes it on to the pages of Fab in 1969.
Hal Carter’s baby’s christening with Billy Fury on the right and me in a stupid hat right behind him, Jimmy Campbell top left and Gordon Coxhill from NME centre back.
One month into my job as ed’s sec, I find myself in the Daily Mirror. But I’ve morphed into Judy Wallace.
Some Gorgeous Girls (and I use that term loosely) with Tom Jones at the Royal Albert Hall (that’s me on his left).
Fab reports my meeting with Tom Jones; my old hero Richard Chamberlain has to make do with a smaller photo.
Groovy Girl fashion in Fab, part one – my first appearance in the magazine. See bottom left, it mentions me …
At the ‘Gorgeous Girls’ Gala, Royal Albert Hall, October 1967.
Part two of Groovy Girl.
I share the front cover of The Sunday Mirror with Engelbert Humperdinck (me far right).
A spot of modelling for Fab with Elaine Paige.
Fab ‘Fall Guys’ cover September 1967 featuring Keith Richards, Mick Jagger, Donovan, Scott Walker, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Rudolf Nureyev, Sandie Shaw, Mohammad Ali (Cassius Clay as was) and The Monkees.
Fab October 1967 cover featuring The Monkees.
Fab cover, 1968, featuring The Herd – Peter Frampton top centre (and self with office junior Sue, top right).
My moment of fame – on the cover of Honey magazine which was, at the time, ‘young, gay and get-ahead’.
JW and the lovely Anne Wilson, doing that coy girls modelling thing for a Fab fashion feature.
The Fab gang, 1969, in cartoon form. Betty, with me trying to take dictation, top left.
Postcards from the Edge – or, actually, from Edison Lighthouse when they were touring Europe in 1970 – to Georgina and me.
Fab gang, 1970; me top left looking miserable, Julie Webb left of centre, Betty Hale centre.
Tony Prince, Radio Luxembourg DJ, and I having a bit of ‘fun’ at the 208 London headquarters.
Kid Jensen and me having a reflective moment in his room in Luxembourg town, 1970.
Les Gray of Mud and me at some PR bash at Brands Hatch motor racing circuit.
The Fab Gang circa 1971; me bottom right, looking suicidal, probably hungover. Georgina Mells and Betty Hale are in the centre.
Self, complete with best-ironed hair, as photographed by Beverly Goodway for News of the World.
Leonard Nimoy and I chat during a coffee break on the set of Catlow in Almeria, Spain, May 1971.
Nimoy and me having a rest after the walk to the top of the fort in Almeria.
Postcard to my mother from Almeria 1971, mentioning actor Yul Brynner as a ‘big-headed cow’.
I write Slade’s ‘life story’ for Fab – bottom right, Noddy Holder and I chat.
My invitation to Mecca! Or, at least, the letter from them inviting me to be a judge at their disco-dancing competition.
A page from my diary for 1972 – Slade, Mama Cass, Sacha Distel, Johnny Nash … and the dentist.
At the Dorchester hotel in February 1972 interviewing David Cassidy, complete with his favourite yeti boots.
A diary page from 1973.
Interviewing Donny Osmond – probably summer 1972.
The IOU I received from Andy Williams after I gave him my cigarette lighter. The signature at the top was mine, and the one underneath was his – but he wrote my name instead! He was a bit out of it at the time.
Fab competition winner Judi and I at Disneyland, LA, 1973.
Donny Osmond sings to Judi in Las Vegas while Betty Hale (left) and I look on (Osmond brothers legs in the background).
One of the Fab Dream Come True features, with David Essex and reader Karen.
Keith Moon doing his Noel Coward impression backstage. Do I spot my handbag in the background?
Alan Osmond signs autographs for fans at London Heathrow in 1973. That’s me on the right, waiting to join him in the Osmond limo to London.
The Moon lets rip on stage, body art well hidden – for the moment.
A trip to The Derby with Mud in June 1975 just before I left Fab.
Goodbye, Fab! My leaving card.